The breakneck pace at which NLP and IR are advancing, we argue, makes reproducibility and replicability critical to advancing science—to ensure that we are building on a firm foundation.
Our study adds to the veracity of the claims made by [1]}, and our work does indeed confirm that DPR is an effective dense retrieval technique.
However, we arrived at two important additional findings, one of which is inconsistent with the original work, the other of which presents an enhancement.
Together, they enrich our understanding of DPR.
